† maid-child Obs.
= maiden-child.
| c 1205 Lay. 14378 He bad Hengest his dring ȝiuen him þat maide-child. Ibid. 24529 Moni mæide child wes þere. c 1375 Cursor M. 11299 (Laud) For maide child [other texts maiden child] as long also. c 1386 Chaucer Shipman's T. 95 A mayde child cam in hire compaignye. a 1450 Myrc 217 Also thys mote ben hem sayde, Boþe for knaue chyldere & for mayde, That [etc.]. 1535 Coverdale Lev. xii. 5 But yf she beare a maydechilde [1611 maid child]. 1608 Shakes. Per. v. iii. 6 [She] brought forth a Mayd child calld Marina. |